Writer and professor Sara Levine joins Naomi for a conversation on Toni Morrison's Sula, in which they discuss tracking prepositions, the use of vowel sounds in influencing readerly movement, lobbies, and the traces of different readings in oft-re-read books.
To pre-order Naomi's new title, Marginalia: an autobiography, from Autofocus Books, please click here.
Sara Levine is the author of the novel Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her new novel, The Hitch, published by Roxane Gay Books, comes out in January. She also writes the Substack, Delusions of Grammar, which you can read here. She teaches creative writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
And to read "The Sentence Is a Lonely Place" by Garielle Lutz, mentioned by Sara during the podcast, click here.
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